fewer jobs are like the full-time workplace-based industrial jobs around which social insurance systems were constructed. So it would be arbitrary to link social security to contributions from labour. This points to the need for a basic income system,

Is the promise of gig-economy platforms to deliver high quality at low prices an illusion? Is the truth that the benefits of gig work come at the expense of (mostly desperate) freelancers? As a businessperson who wants to do the right thing, should you ever say no when someone is willing to provide high-quality work for little money? These